Also called: Mass Care Specialist
Runs a disaster shelter where evacuees sleep, eat, and get help.
Shelter managers turn a school gym into a temporary home: setting up cots, serving meals, handling pets, medical needs, and conflicts, often for days. Many work for relief groups or as deployable staff.
Often temporary or deployment-based.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. Training provided by relief organizations.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Social Work, Emergency Management.
Growing about average. Approximate.
Low risk for 10 years. Check-in apps help; running a gym full of evacuees and handling conflicts stay human.
Age 18+. One way to start: Sign up with the Red Cross or a disaster staffing firm and take their shelter training online First: Shelter training from the Red Cross or a contractor (a few hours online); a background check
Classes: Psychology, Health / first aid, Spanish.
Official data: O*NET occupation 21-1099.
Career Universe is an early version. Pay, training and AI-risk figures are estimates to start your own research, not verified facts. The research was written with AI research assistants, checked by validation scripts and spot-checked by hand. Check anything important with schools, employers and official sources. How the numbers work.